Going Into the Weekend Like...

Okay not really but a boy can dream.
(If you missed this photo-shoot click here.)

The Jarmusch Don't Die

My feelings on the movies of writer-director-hairdo Jim Jarmusch have long been all over the place -- some I like, some I hate, but I can't say I've ever deeply loved anything he's directed. Night on Earth is probably the closest that comes to that. I'm also a fan of Broken Flowers and I seem to be one of the few who really liked his zombie comedy The Dead Don't Die. Anyway that was all true until I saw his latest at NYFF a couple of weeks ago -- click over to Pajiba to read my thoughts on Father Mother Sister Brother, the director's "rumination on the unfamiliarity of family" as I put it, which seems to've immediately become a personal fave from the white-haired iconoclast. A triptych of unrelated stories about three very different families who have had some issues connecting, the film stars Charlotte Rampling, Vicky Krieps, Cate Blanchett, Tom Waits, Adam Driver, et cetera et cetera -- Jim Jarmusch can get whoever he wants and he usually does. Krieps gives my favorite turn in the film but then she often does -- thank you Paul Thomas Anderson for the gift of Vicky! FMSB is out in U.S. theaters on Christmas Eve; here's the recently dropped trailer:

Louis Garrel Five Times

Major props to the photographer who decided that I needed the image of Louis Garrel flashing me old-school trenchcoat-style in front of some bookshelves today -- just what the doctor ordered, that! Anyway I lost the link for who shot these but yesterday I happened upon a French photographer's Instagram who's gifted the world with shoots of several of our favorite Frenchies recently so you should expect me to be dropping batches of these wondrous gifts regularly for the next week or so. But we kick things off with Louis, since he's Louis. Hit the jump for them...

Cold Nights For Pretty Boys

Back in August I told you about All of Us Strangers and Looking director Andrew Haigh's next movie -- excuse me, next GAY movie (thank goodness) -- an adaptation of Colm Tóibín's book A Long Winter (which comes out in a couple of weeks) about a woman who goes druunkenly wandering into a snowstorm, forcing her husband and son to start a long search for her. That plot description is slightly different from the one of the book -- especially the names and settings which have seem to've been Americanized from the Pyrenees of Tóibín's novel. Anyway there's no word on who's playing who yet but we have some cast members now -- Heartstopper hunk Kit Connor with his Warfare castmate D'Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai, and then our boy Fred Hechinger! (Yay Fred!) How those three pretty young things fit into that plot description I have no idea, but we'll leave our trust in Andrew Haigh, who has yet to make anything that wasn't incredible in his entire career and yet who keeps being ignored by awards bodies because he keeps making gay stuff. (What, me get over All of Us Strangers being snubbed? Are you nuts?) 

Five Frames From ?

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Good Morning, World

The answer to the question, "What if Kit Harington but more trade?" I have actually posted about Irish actor Fra Fee on here before -- he was the lucky soul who got to get all gay and naked with Leo Woodall on the series Prime Target. Man that show was dumb but I would 100% watch 10 more seasons of it. Anyway for some reason Mr. Fee's Instagram popped up in my feed today even though I hadn't started following him (yet) -- this photoshoot specifically and it seemed like a nice enough way to greet a Friday morning to me. He's got a few projects in the works so I think we'll see more of him, so let's familiarize ourselves some more before that happens right now right here after the jump...

Ride 'Em, RPattz

Something might be getting stiff but it sure ain't my love, Rob! Ahem. Anyway Robert Pattinson in a cowboy hat and a gold chain -- who knew?? Well I guess Lynne Ramsay knew. Anyway this movie is supposedly out in like two weeks but I'm starting to think it doesn't actually exist? I'm always down for a Ramsay jam dammit -- You Were Never Really Here remains one of the greatest cinematic achievements of the new century. Here's the Die My Love trailer if you haven't watched it yet:

Diego Calva Three Times

Absolutely everybody and everybody's cousin is getting photographed in those thigh-high leather boots! Was Pedro Pascal the first one to rock them? I think he was. Anyway we will enjoy all of Hollywood's leading men looking like background sluts from Cruising for as long as we can -- thank you, Diego.

Chug Billy Chug

We would be very happy boys if Billy Magnusson just started making lots of horror movies -- that cherubic face splattered with blood? Are you kidding me? I'll swoon. So we're greeting today's news with one helluva huzzah -- he's going to star in Buzzkill, the next horror movie from Suitable Flesh director Joe Lynch! (Suitable Flesh is so much fun y'all.) Billy boy will play a recovering alcoholic sheriff in a small Texas town who finds himself facing down an invisible monster that people can only see when they're trashed. It's also got a Jaws twist in that there's a big annual beer festival coming up in the town that's doomed to turn into a bloodbath if he can't stop it. So kind of John Carpenter's They Live meets MTV's Spring Break programming? I'm into it. Put Billy in a uniform and I'm into it. (But take Billy out of a uniform? Now we're really cooking.) In related news Billy's actually got a scary thriller type flick out on Halloween -- it's called Violent Ends and god he looks gorrrrgeous in the trailer, watch below:

Save the Yorgos Planet!

There is a new movie from Yorgos Lanthimos out this weekend! Maybe you heard about it? Like one of the dozen times I posted about it? Or somewhere else, even. It's called Bugonia and it re-teams the Poor Things and Kinds of Kindness director with Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons in a remake of the 2003 South Korean sci-fi comedy Save the Green Planet! -- what did I think of it, you ask? Well I thought many things actually and you can read many of them over at Pajiba right now in my review. So click, go, read! You know the drill. 

Black Hole Bounces Back

There has been talk for years and years and years and years that my favorite artist Charles Burns' masterpiece Black Hole (which began an eight issue run in 1995 and was then collected into a graphic novel in 2005) would be turned into a movie or something -- David Fincher was trying to do it for ages. It's been a long while since I've seen any news on it so I'd presumed it was dead, which honestly I was fine with -- I don't know that Burns' work is especially translatable to moving pictures. But today there's new news -- specifically that I Saw the T.V. Glow filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun is going to turn it into a series for Netflix. Which makes a world of sense, even though it hadn't occured to me when ISTTVG came out -- in retrospect that movie is totally giving major Burns vibes!

If you don't recall Black Hole tells the story of a sexually transmitted disease making its way through a high school, hideously deforming people as it goes -- honestly I haven't read Black Hole in a decade myself so I should give it another read in the wake oif this news. I am a real Burns obsessive though -- I think I own more of his work than I do any other artist. So clearly I'll be following this news closely. Even if I don't think Black Hole needs to be made into anything other than what it is right now I can see the possibilities in Schoenbrun's hands. We'll see! Netflix has already greenlit the thing straight-to-series so it's really happening happening. Prepare your body holes!

Five Frames From ?

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Good Morning, New Pillion Poster

(via) I'm almost tempted to zoom in on Harry Melling's face there between Alexander Skarsgard's leather-clad thighs because he so nails the look of goofy satisfaction that such a situation would and should elicit -- I can't wait for you guys to all see this wonderful movie! As I've said a few times the U.K. is getting it first, way first, as in next month, while we've got to wait until February -- I know that's annoying but I'm simultaneously delighted they're angling it as a Valentine's Day movie so I cannot complain. What can I complain about? (You know there's always something.) Well it was brought to my attention a few days ago (thx Mac) that the cut anyone has seen to date at film festivals (including me at NYFF) was basically an NC-17 cut and they're going to have to edit the sex down some to get an R. I can't say I am surprised -- the festival cut was hella raunchy. But it's still annoying -- this movie is for grown-ups and grown-ups can handle some raunch y'all. Puritanical nonsense. So we'll have to see in February how far the cutting goes and just cross our fingers that the eventual physical media release restores the movie to all of its uncut (ahem) glory. 

Tom Blyth & Russell Tovey Eighteen Times

Somebody at Man About Town magazine must've been a really big fan of the movie Plainclothes -- as was I! -- because not only did they gift us with that sexy photoshoot of Russell Tovey that I shared back at the start of October but then they went and dropped a shoot of Russell with his on-screen gay lover Tom Blyth together, and then today an entire shoot of Tom all by himself! We truly admire their obsession. Anyway with all I had going on this month I shamefully hadn't posted the duo shoot yet so now that we have this opportunity we're snatching it -- hit the jump for them all...

What Happened To Riley Brennan

I haven't done a very good job celebrating Ye Spooky Season here at MNPP this month -- getting sick at the tail-end of NYFF knocked me on my ass and got me too far behind on other things which I'm still catching up on. Alas. But here's a word of advice -- there's a good horror movie out this weekend! It's called Shelby Oaks and I saw it a hundred million months ago (okay okay it was July of 2024 but you know -- time has ceased having meaning or whatever) but I gave it a good review at Mashable when I did, and said review has now made its way onto a new poster for the movie seen above. I'm the one saying "Unnerving As Hell" if you can't quite make out the tinier type. I posted the trailer for the film a couple of weeks ago, you can watch it right here. I look forward to watching it again since it's been so long, but there are a few scenes from this movie genuinely burned into my brain, in the scary way, all these many months later -- a very good sign it will hold up!

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Good Morning, World

Once agaun our Spanish lord and savior Miguel Angel Silvestre coming through for us -- I spent ten minutes scouring the usual places for some "Good Morning" content to share and then wham, there he was, half-naked and as ever more than happy to be exploited. Everybody say thanks, Miguel. And I dunno about you but I'm feeling that dopamine he mentions just looking at this picture...

 

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

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I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

Young Woman: Everything has to die. That's the truth. One likes to think that there is always hope, that you can live above death. And it's a uniquely human fantasy that things will get better, born perhaps of the uniquely human understanding that things will not. There's no way to know for certain. But I suspect humans are the only animals that know the inevitability of their own deaths. Other animals live in the present. Humans cannot. So they invented hope.

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Good Morning, JAW

I was wondering when we'd start getting our Jeremy Allen White awards season PR push and I guess it makes sense that being today since his Springsteen movie is apparently out on Friday! I didn't even realize. I saw the film at NYFF and... it's fine? Actors have won Oscars for worse musician bio-pics and yes I am speaking directly to you, Rami Malek. I imagine it will make Springsteen people happy -- having never been one of said people I learned some stuff I didn't know but I can't say I was blown away by anything I witnessed. This is why I didn't write a review! I really have nothing to say about it. But Jeremy Allen White flashing dem abs and digging around in his jeans crotch for Interview Magazine today? That I could write ten thousand words about. Half of it would take the form of one of those "Man From Nantucket" rhymes sure but hey it's something. Anyway he's a sexy af short king and we love this shoot and good morning, hit the jump for all of it...